Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về hóa học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học đề tài : Factors influencing agreement between child self-report and parent proxy-reports on the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ (PedsQL™) generic core scales | BioMed Central Health and Quality of Life Outcomes Open Access Factors influencing agreement between child self-report and parent proxy-reports on the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory PedsQL generic core scales Joanne Cremeens 1 Christine Eiser2 and Mark Blades2 Address division of Behavioral Medicine St. Jude Children s Research Hospital Memphis TN USA and 2Department of Psychology University of Sheffield UK Email Joanne Cremeens - Christine Mark Blades - Corresponding author Published 30 August 2006 Received 19 April 2006 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2006 4 58 doi 1477-7525-4-58 Accepted 30 August 2006 This article is available from http content 4 1 58 2006 Cremeens et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract_ Background In situations where children are unable or unwilling to respond for themselves measurement of quality of life QOL is often obtained by parent proxy-report. However the relationship between child self and parent proxy-reports has been shown to be poor in some circumstances. Additionally the most appropriate statistical method for comparing ratings between child and parent proxy-reports has not been clearly established. The objectives of this study were to assess the 1 agreement between child and parent proxy-reports on an established child QOL measure the PedsQL using two different statistical methods 2 effect of chronological age and domain type on agreement between children s and parents reports on the PedsQL 3 relationship between parents own well-being and their ratings of their child s .
